Blended learning can be exposed as hype
An educator from Alberta writes that blended learning, where online courses are combined with face-to-face instruction, is all hype.
News & Issues
Hungry students want to change food truck law
A variety of food choices at lunch is what kids say they want; the USDA stands behind nutrition standards in the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act.
Suicide at the socioeconomic extremes
2014-15 saw an increase in media reports of teen suicide, both among those with missing parents & those with helicopter parents.
Hard to learn in the heat of Baltimore Co.
The suffocating heat in classrooms in 1 Baltimore County school (and others) makes even the simplest tasks difficult.
PARCC tests disrupt school schedules in Ohio
Now that the PARCC tests have finished, we're starting to hear rumblings that the tests disrupted schedules and impaired instruction in our schools.
Who runs schools: board, legislature, governor?
We wonder sometimes who runs public schools anymore, now that politicians are fighting with educators over how our students should be taught.
Ohio charter faked student enrollment numbers
A now-closed charter school fraudulently padded its enrollment numbers so it would receive more than $1 million more than it deserved.
Books thrown out as Balto. high school closes
Some books, maybe more than 1,000, were thrown into the trash or recycled as Baltimore City closed one of its high schools. Pitiful.
Lunch lady fired for giving a free lunch
A (former) lunch lady in Colorado, who says she was fired because she gave a student a free lunch, calls on taxpayers to provide free meals for all students.
Possible tyranny of the majority in East Ramapo
A school board in N.Y. has asserted its majority to, we believe, deprive minority children of the right to a free and adequate public education.